PTI - Stamp-A-Faire 2016 - Gilded in Gold

This project surprised me. I LOVED working with the gold leaf. I wanted to gold-ify everything in sight. ;)



I used the heart from Shaker shapes, the butterfly from Life is Beautiful, and a sentiment from an Ellen Hutson set - isn't it a perfect sentiment for this project? I thought so!

PTI Stamp-A-Faire 2016 - Starry Night

The first project of the day was to try to create a starry night. I was worried halfway through this project because it was looking like a hot mess. But I persevered and I actually really like how it turned out! :) I'm not crazy about my sequin placement - those are always a challenge for me - but it will do.

PTI MIM #250 Masked Background

I'm playing along with this week's Make It Monday #250 at Papertrey Ink. It's all about masked backgrounds this week. I taped off the edges, sponged Distress Ink, then added the sentiment from PTI Choose Joy - I thought it could work for a graduation, right? Then added the strip of black, with white embossed "Graduate" from PTI Paper Clippings: Congratulations.

Thanks for stopping by!

Playing along with Freshly Made Sketch #228

I loved this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketch and had an idea right away.

I used Papertrey Ink's new anniversary set, Painted Petals along with some of their printed paper in Bright Buttercup for the background. I sponged just a bit of blue distress ink along the top of the card for some depth and color.

I love it and think it's so cheery! Thanks for visiting!

Papertrey SAF bridal challenge

One more card tonight for Papertrey Ink's Stamp-a-faire event. Scroll down to see my other two cards for the mix+match challenge and the patterns challenge.

This challenge was to use all white to create a bridal card. I used my Turning a New Leaf stamp set with some Perfect Pearls. The LOVE stamp is a rubber stamp I've had for ages and I stamped that on some vellum and then attached the vellum with my sewing machine. I love the shimmer from the Perfect Pearls - very cool effect. Lastly, a few bits of diamond bling finishes it off.

PTI Stamp-a-faire Patterns challenge

Here is the card I made for the Patterns Challenge for Papertrey Ink's stampafaire event. I used Pattern 10 from Melissa Phillips. I love how she uses tags on cards but mine never seem to look quite right and I think I figured out Melissa's trick - she trims her card size so that the proportion works. Kind of a huge "duh" moment for me.

Here is the pattern:

And you can see Melissa's gorgeous card here.

And here's my take on Melissa's pattern:

PTI Stampafaire - Mix+Match challenge

Hi! Dropping in to post some projects I made on Saturday for Papertrey Ink's Stamp-a-faire event. This first card is for the Mix+Match challenge. Betsy taught us some tips on how to mix pattern paper successfully. I'm not sure how successful this was but I made it work. I do love the tag but the jury is still out on the card as a whole.